I've been taking it for almost 5 years this time, and about 2 years before I got pregnant. One of the side effects is decreased appetite...I would barely be able to finish half a sandwich. It helped me lose some extra weight I'd gained from taking Seroquel. This second time I started on it, I was losing too much weight and seemed a little flat personality wise, so my pdoc added abilify first, which didn't work, and then finally lamictal, which I've been doing good on. I've noticed at night when I'm not quite tired enough to fall right to sleep, I'll have uncontrolled movements of my upper body, mainly my shoulders. They just jerk a little. But I just close my eyes and think about going to sleep or put my mind on something else and they lessen. I take 60mg in the morning and I get tired if I eat food right away, which is recommended to be most effective. I'll fall asleep for 2 hours, which is not good when I'm the only one home with my little one. I take 80mg at night and will feel tired usually about 3 hours after I take it, sometimes longer if I take a nap during the day. But when I first started on it, it would knock me out within an hour. I've thought about switching meds but I've seemed to do pretty well on Geodon and I hate switching and dealing with new side effects and being super tired. I haven't really been depressed, and I think too much Lamictal was making me slightly manic, but I decreased that and I've been good. Decreased libido is definitely an issue, which bothers my husband way more than it bothers me. Good luck to you on it!